Golf Channel
Fairlight is pleased to add the Golf Channel at NBC to its prestigious list of US customers having just installed a new 3.3 Bay EVO console.

Speed of editing within short production windows was the primary motivator for Golf Channel’s decision to buy Fairlight. This is made possible by Fairlight’s custom control surface featuring self labelling key switches and ergonomic layout.

Golf Channel are in good company with other US sports Fairlight users including:

 
v     NASCAR Images
v     Universal Sports (NBC) 
v     Major League Baseball 
v     World Wrestling Entertainment
v     NBA Entertainment
v     NFL Films

StageOne Sound 
StageOne Sound here in Sydney is a world class mixing stage, proven on Baz Luhrmann's 'Australia' with renowned Academy Award winning re-recording mixer Andy Nelson.  Andy commented that the stage was amongst the top three in the world. StageOne Sound has proven it can handle everything from the biggest blockbuster to the budget conscious smaller independent release. 

StageOne operate a full <3D> capable facility running a Barco DPK20c 2K 3D digital projector with the XpanD 3D system ... and Fairlight is pleased to announce that we have just installed a Pyxis G2 System. Image for mixing is projected via this Fairlight HD <3D> Pyxis, capable of replaying HD quality QuickTime / MJPEGA / Avid DNx and various other file formats.



                                                                                             
                                                                                                    
New Wave Entertainment  
Speed, Efficiency and a Thousand Projects at Once ! 

The term “fully diversified” takes on new meaning when it comes to describing New Wave Entertainment (NWE). Housed in a 40,000-square-foot complex in the heart of the Burbank Media District (L.A. USA), NWE employs more than 200 people and is one of the largest creative marketing and production service companies around. 

Established in 1986 as a movie trailer vendor, the company's current services encompass everything from content creation for film and television to HDTV production, video post, DVD special features and menu design, motion graphics, music scoring, artist management and more. The audio department that services this growing enterprise is obviously a busy one, staffed by 11 mixers and running two shifts.

New Wave Entertainment’s infrastructure is built around the Fairlight family of modular production and post production systems and includes5 EVO Consoles and 1 Xynergi system with XE6 Fader sidecars.

Mark Rodrigues, Chief Engineer at New Wave Entertainment says: "New Wave Entertainment and Fairlight have a long history of working together and the key word here is ‘together’. Unlike most other companies in the Post Production business Fairlight provides hands on service with frequent software upgrades. We recently upgraded from Dream consoles to new EVO consoles. The EVO system is quite possibly the best Product to hit the audio Post Production industry in decades.The audio quality is unmatched and the Xynergi surface is the most powerful audio editor around. The built in Pyxis with 3D capability and dual video tracks is a must in our business and I don’t know how we lived without it before. The ability to import and export Quicktime files for approvals is a huge time saver."                                                                                                                                                                                                   

The South Australian Film Corp

South Australian Film Corporation has recently increased their production capacity with the purchase of a Fairlight Xynergi system with 2 XE6 Fader Sidecars.  The new equipment has been installed in the ADR/Foley recording studio in Adelaide, Australia and operates in conjunction with a Fairlight HD Pyxis. This provides editing and replay capability of HD quality QuickTime / MJPEGA / Avid DNx and various other video file formats.

The new Fairlight equipment adds to a growing capacity and sophistication at SAFC including:                                                                                                   
  - Two soundstages (1,000sqm and 400sqm); 
  - A sound mixing theatre (Harrison console) with Dolby Premiere Accreditation.
  - A 96-seat screening theatre; 
  - ADR/Foley Recording                                                                                               


                                                                                                
Fairlight congratulates SAFC on their 22 nominations in the Australian IF Awards for Australian films including 9 nominations alone for the recently released Red Dog movie..
                                                                                                

Fairlight Technology


                                                                                                   
Fairlight CMI
The Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital sampling synthesizer. It was designed in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, and based on a dual-6800 microprocessor computer designed by Tony Furse in Sydney, Australia. It rose to prominence in the early 1980s and competed in the market with the Synclavier from New England Digital. 

In August 2009, Peter Vogel launched a new company, called Fairlight Instruments (www.fairlightinstruments.com.au), with the objective of developing a 'retro' CMI-30A (30th Anniversary). This system has the look and feel of the 1979 CMI, complete with green screen and light pen. The new CMI is unique in that it produces the classic “Fairlight sound” that defined music of the eighties as well as the modern Fairlight sound — that of uncompromising signal purity. The technology used in the new Fairlight CMI comes from Fairlight Australia – including the Crystal Core engine which lies at the heart of the system.  Fairlight Australia was contracted to produce the software for Peter’s new CMI. 

This is the same Crystal Core media processor (CC-1) used in the Fairlight range of top-end digital audio workstations. The CC-1 uses FPGA (field-programmable gate array) to achieve performance far in excess of what can be achieved using even the fastest digital signal processor of conventional design. 

We here at Fairlight are extremely pleased to have worked with Peter on this project. It represents our pride in the history and tradition ofover 30 years of Fairlight Digital Audio products !! !